British Columbia · Registered charity
CEDAR COAST FIELD STATION SOCIETY
CEDAR COAST FIELD STATION SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$266,458 to it, the largest being THE SITKA FOUNDATION (C$95,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CEDAR COAST FIELD STATION SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 108 research nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 108 research nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Comox Valley Community Foundationlocalportfolio match
- North Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Gencon Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 6% · 2019 5% · 2020 21% · 2021 28% · 2022 39% · 2023 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of CEDAR COAST FIELD STATION SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (98% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose C$5k → C$76k.
From the CRA filings of CEDAR COAST FIELD STATION SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CEDAR COAST FIELD STATION SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CEDAR COAST FIELD STATION SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 84% · 2019 45% · 2020 68% · 2021 90% · 2022 42% · 2023 66% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
63% of CEDAR COAST FIELD STATION SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
84% of CEDAR COAST FIELD STATION SOCIETY's grant income comes from British Columbia funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$3k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Comox Valley Community Foundationlocalportfolio matchBC · funds 21 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- North Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Gencon Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 14 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Eden Conservation Trustshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 12 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Willow Grove Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 19 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Cocks Family FoundationlocalBC · funds 5 organizations near you
- Bc Parks Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hummingbird Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Glasswaters Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Illahie Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Comox Valley Food Bank SocietylocalBC · funds 4 organizations near you
- Gabriola Island Lions FoundationlocalBC · funds 4 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government revenue CEDAR COAST FIELD STATION SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 24% of FY2023 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like CEDAR COAST FIELD STATION SOCIETY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In British Columbia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds CEDAR COAST FIELD STATION SOCIETY?
- CEDAR COAST FIELD STATION SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$266,458 to it, the largest being THE SITKA FOUNDATION (C$95,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CEDAR COAST FIELD STATION SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 14 organizations giving C$266,458 in grants to CEDAR COAST FIELD STATION SOCIETY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CEDAR COAST FIELD STATION SOCIETY?
- THE SITKA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$95,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CEDAR COAST FIELD STATION SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in British Columbia.
These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 14 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register